Akamai an Inside Job?
Rodney Green
rgreen at trayerproducts.com
Wed Jun 16 16:37:27 UTC 2004
He did provide a link
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David Kennedy CISSP wrote:
> The Akamai attacks started in the morning and it was detected by
> Keynote Systems, a web tracking company that is able to track the
load
> and bandwidth on the Internet. According to Keynote they saw
> an "Internet performance issue" this morning
> ...
Here's a link to a Reuter's article with official quotes from Keynote
Systems: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040615/tech_internet_1.html Keynote
saw availability of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google drop to near-zero.
I have no clue where David got the information that:
> They have tracked the attacker back to person that is at the Akamai
> Technologies ISP. No other information has been given to us at this
> time.
That tidbit didn't come from Keynote. Can you provide a link, David?
-DaveU
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